Nanotechnology News

Thursday, February 9, 2012

NanoViricides nabs $5M to take flu fighter to IND
NanoViricides Inc., a Connecticut biotech focused on nanomaterials for antiviral therapy, has closed out a $5 million financing with a $2.5 million tranche from Florida firm Seaside 88 LP.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Nanocomp gets big funding for tiny tubes
Nanocomp Technologies Inc., a Concord, N.H., nanomaterials company, has raised $7.7 million of a planned $25 million new financing round, federal documents show.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Mears Tech taps backers for $1.4M more
Newton semiconductor technology company Mears Technologies Inc. has bumped up its August fundraise from $5.6 million to $7 million, federal documents state.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Nanocomp named DOD nanomanufacturing partner
New Hampshire nanomaterials company Nanocomp Technologies Inc. has been chosen to supply its yarn and sheet material made from carbon nanotubes to the U.S. government under a Department of Defense program.

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Langer's Selecta and Bind land Russian nano firm backing
RUSNANO, a Russian "open joint-stock company", has participated in separate but identical $47.25 million investments to two local companies involved in nanotechnology for drug delivery – Selecta Biosciences Inc. and Bind Biosciences Inc.

Monday, October 17, 2011

NanoSteel seals up a $17M funding round
NanoSteel Co. Inc. of Providence, R.I., has raised $16.99 million in a new funding round for the nanotech-based coatings company, according to a federal document.

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

New Zealand nanotech firm Izon to open U.S. HQ in Cambridge
Nanotechnology company Izon Science Ltd. of Christchurch, New Zealand, plans to launch its U.S. headquarters on Sept. 21 at One Kendall Square in Cambridge, where the company will also sponsor the Inter-University Nanotechnology Measurement Championships.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

UMass Amherst's nanomanufacturing center lands $20M NSF grant
The University of Massachusetts Amherst has won support for its Center for Hierarchical Manufacturing (CHM), which attracted a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Aura Biosciences closes $4.5M Series A, forms NIH deal
MHT correspondent Lori Valigra spoke with Aura Biosciences Inc., a Cambridge-based developer of nanotechnology drug delivery systems, that has raised $4.5 million from private investors to advance its programs into the clinic, and entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the National Institutes of Health.

Friday, August 26, 2011

Aura Biosciences brings in $3M in new fundraise
Aura Biosciences Inc., a Cambridge startup developing nanotechnology for drug delivery, has raised $2.95 million in its second funding round, federal documents show.

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

QD Vision wins $900K DARPA deal for IR devices
QD Vision Inc. of Watertown reports it has won a $900,000 development contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to make a pair of prototype devices based on its quantum dot infrared materials.

Monday, August 8, 2011

Nanocomp nanotech used in NASA’s Juno spacecraft
Nanocomp Technologies Inc. of Concord, N.H., reports its carbon nanotube-based sheet material was used by NASA in the Juno spacecraft launched last week.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Tantaline taps backers for $3.6M in Series B money
Tantaline, a nanotechnology coatings company with headquarters in Denmark and Waltham, has raised $3.6 million in a Series B round of funding, according to a company press release.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

QD Vision scores $22M financing round for expansion
Watertown nanotechnology company QD Vision Inc. has raised $22 million in a funding round to expand its quantum dot technology.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Nano Terra nabs $2.3M in new funding
One day after closing on a licensing deal for a drug development platform, Brighton’s Nano Terra Inc. has closed on a $2.3 million funding round, according to federal documents. The funding follows just a few months after the company’s most recent fundraise, in which Nano Terra took in $17.2 million of a planned $23.6 million venture funding round.

Monday, April 25, 2011

Nano Terra licenses nanotech, ex-Surface Logix platform
Nano Terra Inc., a Brighton nanotechnology development firm, is giving an exclusive worldwide license to three disease-oriented product candidates and rights to its Pharmacomer drug discovery platform to New York City biotechnology firm Kadmon Pharmaceuticals LLC.

Monday, April 18, 2011

GMZ Energy grabs $7M as part of first funding round
Newton’s GMZ Energy Inc., a maker of thermoelectric materials based on nanotechnology developed at MIT, has raised $7 million from a planned $13 million investment round, the first institutional round for the company.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

State extends UMass Lowell-Shenkar College agreement
The Patrick Administration today announced an expansion of an October 2010 research and development agreement between the University of Massachusetts Lowell's Nanomanufacturing Center of Excellence and Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Israel.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Chen’s tissue engineering wins Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
Biomedical engineer and graduate student Alice A. Chen has been named the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize, winning $30,000 for using micro- and nanotechnology applications to study diseases and health issues.

Monday, February 14, 2011

PerkinElmer picks up Germany’s chemagen
Waltham-based PerkinElmer Inc. has acquired chemagen Biopolymer-Technologie AG, Germany-based maker of automated nucleic acid isolation technology with operations in Worcester, for an undisclosed amount.